Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14

day last week he drank three-qusrters OF
a quart bottle, experiencing no other re-
suit than pleasant eXhilaration; half a
glassful of ordinary whisky would, he
says, have laid him ont upon the floor.
The chemistry Of intoxication, according
to many experiments with whisky before
and sitter this secret treatment, is that in
the analysis to which the whisky is SUBJ
mitted by the stomach, the others affect
! the Orsin, ana are solely responsible for
! dizziness and iGtoxicatioD, while the food
/ material in the alcohol goes to enrich the
I blood and stimulate the body with q
rapidity unequsled in the case of solid
foot. After many months of careful tx
| pertinent, the inventor also believes that
h S haEmleSS whisky retains every parti-
c,set the material which is of value in
f~fisky or brandy as medicinal agent,
and he processes to have made some re-
marksble cures by means of de-etherized
whisky; q long-staniing case Of Chilis and
fever was cured by liberal doses, after
every other remedy had failed.
! The inventor believes that in making
this discovery he has done q great work
. for the prohi5itionists, inasmuCh as
whisky after such treatment may be re-
g&rded as nothing more or less than food
of highly nutritious and valuable kind,
and under this belief he has attempted TO
obtain the appreciation OF the leading
prOhi itiOn auyocateS. Unfortunately he
does not seem TO nave been successful
He saws that the Rev. DR.. Howard
Crosby treated him 'like Niger" and
seemed to take MS visit and his bottle of
whisky as ii personal insult. DR.. Crosby
referred him with extreme warmth 10 the
chemists, and said that he had nothing tc
do with the scientific aspects Of the ques-
ton. With other lights of the temperance
cause be met with 10 b tier luck. Upon
the other hand, the liquoT-dealers whom
he asked to test his whisky were unani5'
nous in denOunciug it Us & fraud. As
whisky it WIS not worth five cents gal
lon after dee n sriz4tIon, whatever value
it mtgut have as 4 temperance drink. and
one prominent expert in liquors declared
Il tie Inventor Il!t no !iquOr-dealer in
the city would dream Of placing the stuff
before mis- patrons; first, because the
patrons wanted To get drunk, and, sec
ondly, because tie liquor dealer wanted
them 10 do SO. No more Indignant assem- |
by could be imagined than the social cir |
Gle a any of our grOgshops attempting q |
hNHt . HSi' GtA'l- ~ tH!S tdt4ISN |
whisky. a prominent wbisAy-taster who
was asked for his professional opinion |
u on the merits of the stuff as q drink,
said thai il had no merits; 1t had lost lis /
'bite," and any whisky mixer before
whom . bottle of such stuff was placed
would be justified in throwing the bottle
az the bartender
Altogether the prospects OF Introducing
tanned whisky as an article of commerce
are not brilliant, and the inventor con-
Iesses that 70 capitalists have appeared
ready to manufacture the article upon q
arge scale. The process is cheap, and
would not appreciabiy increase the cost
If alcoholic liquors; the elimination of
he others in whisky would amount TO
'bout per cent of the alcohol contained
herein. l.